The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-11
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attending the Smithville High School, has twice
performed the remarkable sonambulistic freak
of walking in her sleep from Smlthvllle to her
home, fifteen miles away.
DR.. EDWARD KNOX, of Green Mary, Tenn,
angry at his l4-yeal- old son, who had disobeyed
him, stripped him, tied him up and whipped
him with blacksnake whip until he became
unconscious, and at the pleading of his mother
was taken down. The lad died the next morn
ing, and the father has fled The mother is al
most crazed.
THE South Sea Islands appear to be sort of
go-as-you-please paradise. Samoan advices say
that the Hawaiian embassy, which is there to
negotiate South Sea confederation, is building
a saloon in front of its residence and is debauch-
ing the SamOans by treating them to liquor IN
the face of the law prohibiting the sale OF In
toxcants to natives.
IN Rondout, n. Y, there is a restaurant that
displays printed cards which convey to custom
ers information of what may be obtained there.
One of the signs reads as follows: Lamb
chopSes;h another. "oyster stewSes; another,
"all kindseS of pises" another, "oyster fryseS, :"
etc. A man walked into the place, and, after
looking at the signs, blandly asked the clerk for
processes of peSes."
SOLID silver Ratchet found recently in Sonora
will soon adorn the museum of Princeton Col
lege. 1t weighs 100 ounces, or little over eight
pounds and as bullion it is valued at dollar an
and was evidently hammered by some prehls
toric people. 1t was brought to San Francisco
and was purchased for $50 by Henry G. Mar
quand, who will present it to his college.
ACCORDING to DR.. Carl Peters, who heads the
expedition about to start from Berlin, the pos
sessions of the German East African company
include an area of 80 900 German that is, rather
more than 100000 English square miles, equal to
an aggregate of France and the two empires OF
Central Europe. Ten tiourishing stations have
already been established, and the others are in
course of formation in this vast territory.
THE attention of Mr.. Barnum is called to
Egbert Lyons yoke of steers. In a lite over
month he has taught them to keel and walk on
their knees, sit down from standing position
sit up from position of lying GoEn, walk up
bridge into the cart and return. put their for
ward feet on turning table and walk around
three legs, jump over one another, walk under
each other, and other easier tricks.
IT is related of David Davis, who was very
honest and simple man, that he was once heard
at Springfield, H., while sitting at the breakfast
table among the ladies, to say to himself: Il am
a fool; am id fool" He repeated this sew
eral times, and suddenly looking up discovered
that he had been talking aloud. He explained
afterward as Cath" tells the story, that he was
conversing about a sale he had made of some
unimproved property at Bloomington.
DANBURY, Conn, has pair of twins that not
only look and speak exactly alike, but are pecu-
liarly attached to one another. They cannot be
separated a single day without longing for each
others society, and yet they are both married
now. Ii one is upon one street and the other
on a different one they can tell by some electri-
cal affinity whether they are approaching each
other or getting further apart. When one is
sick the other is more or less similarly affected
THERE is a gypsy camp near Hartford, Conn,
| whose ruler is known as prince William" Two
handsome wagons worth about $1,000 apiece
| have lust been completed in Fair Haven for his
| Royal Romany Highness. The wagons are
| highly decorated and the bodies are covered
| with gold bronze. The ironwork is heavily
plated with silver. The Prince" is well able
| to foot the bill for these gorgeous vehicles.
Even gypsies in Connecticut know how to make
| money.
THERE is little railroad running between
| Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. c., distance of
| ten miles. 1t has president, three vice presi
dents, a secretary, an auditor, a general traffic
manager, a general freight agent, q general
| ent of motive power and an assistant general
manager-thirteen officers in all. 1t is said that
| when the telegraph wire is down the officers
| string themselves along the road and all mes
sages are passed along by word of mouth.
SIR JOHN MELLoR is dead at the age of 7S. He
was one of the three judges before whom was
| tried Thomas Castro, in proceedings lasting 1Ss
|
| which that remarkable criminal persona ted Sir
Roger Tichborne. He also presided at the trial
| of the Manchester murderers who killed Ser
| geant Brett as he was taking some Irish pris-
| oners to jail Sir John Mellor was at Cannes
| during the recent earthquakes. He felt the
| shocks in his bedroom, but did not think it
worth while to get up and dress.
| NJ. LEROY BEAULIEy French writer of note,
has figured out the facts connected with the
wars waged in Europe during the last 400 years,
| and he files the bill as follows: These wars num-
| Der 2S6 and are divided as follows: A were
| waged to obtain an increase of territory Qand
| grabbing is the plain English for it, and ~
| Sprang from the raising of taxes. Through re-
| prisals made, "a wars originated; 8 only were
| fought for honorary prerogatives, for territor-
| ial contests, II through pretensions to crown,
30 to assist an ally, % through rivalry of infiu-
| ence, for commercial quarrels, and there were
| 80 civil and rs religious wars as well.
THE Washington Capital says: can old gen.
tleman appeared at the Patent Office the other
day and wanted to know why an application for
! patent on an attachment to a milling machine
he had filed had not been granted He was
shown patent covering the Identical improve
ments he claimed, granted some ten years since
| The old inventor gazed at the drawings of the
patent in a dazed way and then said i worked
on that invention for ten years every night and
just as | thought had accomplished the aim of
my life | find another man had done it years
ago Tears filed the old mans eyes as he
walked out of the room the picture of despair
The Boston Budget tells of q lady in that city
who is much interested in the spiritual welfare
of Cinnamon. Among the Celestias is one
whose progress had not been such as to greatly
encourage his teacher. Therefore when she
called upon him the other day at his laundry
and inquired bow he was getting along, she was
very much pleased with the prompt reply, "Plet-
ty good Happening to notice the alb
sence from the shop of one whom she was
accustomed to meet on previous visits there she
asked what had become of him, whereupon her
protege dumfounded her and still further en-
phasized his own progress in the mastery of
English by bis response: Klicked tlee bucket
NEARLY every one in New York has heard of
Back Number Budd, who puts away every
day fifty copies of each New York newspaper to
sell them to customers years hence at 500 to
5000 per cent profit. It sreported that he once
received 500 for single newspaper Recently
he was called upon by some Kansas men among
whom was Senator Ingalls, who asked his assist.
ance in procuring complete file of the LedUc7l-
north Jour7ldNfor the two years that It was
under the management Of john Henderson dur
ing the agitation that resulted in the Lcconpton
Constitutional Convention and the establishment
of Kansas as u free State. The file was desired
for the Kansas Historical Society, and they were
willing to pay $4,000 for it.
WHAT are the sensations experienced during
hanging? Some of the few who have been
able to give any account of their conscious
ERNs Il